A SECRETIVE ministry with direct links to Gloria Jean's Coffees and the Hillsong Church has been deceiving troubled young women into signing over months of their lives to a program that offers scant medical or psychiatric care, instead using Bible studies and exorcisms to treat mental illness........

Naomi Johnson, Rhiannon Canham-Wright and Megan Smith (Megan asked to use an assumed name) went into Mercy Ministries independent young women, and came out broken and suicidal, believing, as Mercy staff had told them repeatedly, that they were possessed by demons and that Satan controlled them.

Only careful psychological and psychiatric care over several years brought them back from the edge....

Speaking from MY personal opinion,for ME, the thing that is a "red flag" about "secretive ministries"is that they could be nothing morethan "cults", fronted as "medicalcare/mental health care", etc.

2nd thing that concerns me. Within the mental health arena, there is such a thing as "religiousscruplosity" (I could've misspelled that, didn't take the time to check). I THINK it's somewhat like "hypergraphia", where one is compelled to do thereligiously "correct" thing or, even perhaps, "compelled" to foistTHEIR sense of "right" on "us".In MY mind, a "fruitcake" of a different color. Than you know whom.

Now why was this done to these victims? For the cults to get medical benefits from victims (money!!) &/or to get new "converts"?? Oh, there's a Devil in THOSE details, all right...